Mac for a beginner

[Lee]

First off let me just say, before yesterday I had never really used a mac before.

Today I am just as clueless as I was yesterday.

I have installed Zend Server CE - Which I believe gives me a server environment on the mac, correct? Does this come with phpmyadmin installed as default or do I need to configure that separately?

First stupid question, how do I access the localhost?

Second stupid question, where do I save the files so they are displayed in localhost?

Third stupid question, I need a text editor and FTP client. I have got sublime text 2 which I used on windows, and I find to be very useful. But for an FTP client, I am unsure of where to go. Any input?

Ideally, I would like to have xenForo setup as a project in something like eclipse, so I can edit and apply the changes direct to the files and then view them on localhost. I know Kier posted a how to video, but im not sure how to get the localhost to work so its kind of one step ahead of me already. LOL.

Fourth stupid question, I have to add a port on the end of my localhost address to view the zend server admin panel (which I don't know what it does LOL). Is there a way to change it so I can just type my username and it knows where to go? Or configure my root folder to be something like "lee/Sites"?

Sorry for the stupid questions. Please remember if you reply, that I have no experience at all with macs before yesterday and I am getting pretty upset / frustrated that I can't figure out how to make it do what I want!

 

[Jeremy]

Transmit for FTP.

 

[Lee]

Thanks for the recommendation, Transmit looks excellent. I've installed it.

I would love to get local host working though, i'm trying to get it to look at "leerobson/Sites/" to by the root folder of the web server. Stuck to be honest. All a new learning experience though, i'll get there in the end. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

 

[Jeremy]

Quick google search came up with:
http://www.codepotato.co.uk/2012/07/25/enabling-localhost-on-os-x-mountain-lion/

I have it working on my machine without that and would have to look into what I used (I think /Library/WebServer/Documents/ is the default localhost directory).

 

[EQnoble]

if you go to ..

http://localhost:10081/ZendServer
or
https://localhost:10082/ZendServer

what do you see?

 

[Lee]

if you go to ..

http://localhost:10081/ZendServer
or
https://localhost:10082/ZendServer

what do you see?

 

[craigiri]

I have used Fetch (it's paid) as my FTP program for over a decade and really like it......

But there are plenty of other good ones....

I've used stuff like this before to instantly set up localhost as an apache mysql server.
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html

 

[Teapot]

I've used stuff like this before to instantly set up localhost as an apache mysql server.
http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html

I'd like to wholeheartedly recommend MAMP for local dev work. It's really simple and well documented - you just fire it up, put things into the Applications/MAMP/htdocs directory and navigate to http://localhost/

 

[Lee]

I'd like to wholeheartedly recommend MAMP for local dev work. It's really simple and well documented - you just fire it up, put things into the Applications/MAMP/htdocs directory and navigate to http://localhost/

I have installed MAMP and so far it is doing the job perfectly. I have even relocated the htdocs folder successfully

 

[Ingenious]

Really useful thread this, thanks. I have also just installed MAMP and I can now run php files locally - very handy. I don't do a lot of coding these days but what I have done is usually live on a server and it's scary when the whole site goes down because you missed a ; off the end of a line in PHP. At least now I can safely work off-line